#LLL# By studying a triple planetary system that resembles a scaled-up version of our own Sun’s family of planets, astronomers have been able to obtain the first direct spectrum of a planet around a star, thus bringing new insights into its formation and composition.
It is five years since the NASA rovers named "Spirit" and "Opportunity" have been exploring Mars, sending their close up pictures and especially the microscope images.(Squyre 2004). The images (on the website http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery) when studied at high magnification (250-400%) are a good source of information and capture one's attention for days on end. Often, when looking at them a second time one discovers things that were missed the first time.
Il disegnatore e animatore medico David Bolinsky mostra come una cellula sana possa venire trasformata da un virus influenzale in una fabbrica di milioni e milioni di virus.
Il video è una rappresentazione al rallentatore di ciò che accade nella realtà in alcune frazioni di secondo.
Eleven years ago a million Pakistanis danced in the streets after six nuclear weapons had been successfully tested. They had been told that making nuclear bombs was the biggest thing a country could do; Pakistan was now a great country. But this week's North Korean nuclear test gave rock-solid proof that it was a lie.
The drug industry has an image problem, and big changes are needed to restore public confidence. The reasons why it has got itself a bad name are well rehearsed. They include research agendas distorted by priorities that are important to industry but not to patients; inappropriately restricted study populations that exclude patients with multiple health problems and children; uninformative trial designs that fail to assess whether new drugs are better than existing treatment options; outcome measures that ignore the effects
Nerviano Medical Sciences (NMS), a centre at the cutting edge of pharmaceutical research in the field of oncology, is in danger of closure, leaving 650 researches unemployed. While other countries invest millions of euros in such places of excellence, Italy is on the brink of letting one of their top research institutes close. This centre is indispensable for the country and for all those affected by cancer. It is inconceivable that such a place is on the brink of closure. We must save Nerviano Medical Sciences.
